Yellow
צָהֹבStrong’s H6669tsahov (tsa-hov)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsahov is the Hebrew word usually translated “yellow”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.”
Meaning
- Gleaming, yellow (of hair)
How it's translated
- yellow 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:32And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;
- Leviticus 13:36Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.
Hebrew dictionary
צָהֹב tsahov · yellow
gleaming, yellow (of hair)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “yellow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
YELLOW, adjective
[G. See Gold.]
Being of a bright color; the color of gold.
All definitions and other forms of “yellow”
YELLOW, noun
A bright color, reflecting the most light of any, after white. It is one of the simple or primitive colors.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.